uk challenges
- Created by: izzyyyy.
- Created on: 13-06-22 18:33
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- uk challenges
- population
- by 2035, 8.4 million increase
- -birth rates higher than death rates - positive net migration
- increasing demand
- -more technology -higher pop -increased wealth
- pressure on natural habitats = need to remove green spaces
- increases flood risk as buildins make more impermeable surfaces
- pressure on climate change as more urbanisation increases fossil fuels
- solutions
- renewable energy
- not damage the environment itslef but is relient on weather
- greenfield sites
- easier to build on (no previous) but destroys habitats
- brownfield sites
- no extra habitats destroyed but expensive to redevelop (previous work)
- renewable energy
- by 2035, 8.4 million increase
- transport
- issues: why
- population growth more cars more suburban housing
- impacts
- health
- more congestion = more pollution
- economy
- more congestion = late to work = less productivity = less income
- climate change
- more congestion = more fossil fuels
- health
- solutions
- cycle revolution
- london congestion charge
- pollutants reduced by 12%
- issues: why
- two speed economy
- difference wealth depending on where you go
- evidence
- shard: shows wealth
- effects
- SOUTH EAST: congestion and higher house prices
- solutions
- hs2 = run business from anywhere but expensive
- pennines tunnel = connects sheffield to mancheste but could collpase
- migration
- why
- better jobs/healthcare
- effects
- POS: increase economic profit. NEG: housing issues
- why
- national parks
- problems
- dangerous roads, litter, fires
- solutions
- renewable sources
- building conversions
- conservation apprentices ( encourage young people to stay)
- problems
- flooding
- coastal
- impacts
- damage to infrastructure, less tourism
- defences
- hold the line, managed realignment, advance the line
- groynes, riprap, beach replensihing
- impacts
- river
- human
- deforestation, urbanisation
- natural
- impermeable rock, rainfall
- management
- levees, dams, channelisation, landuse zoning
- human
- coastal
- climate change
- impacts
- flood risk, damage to ecosystem,heatwaves,drought in other countrues will increase food prices
- responses
- local
- buy local, walk or cycle, insulate homes
- national
- fund improvements to buildings
- gloabl
- agreements
- local
- impacts
- population
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